Islamic Architecture | MCQs

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The Great Mosque of Damascus is also known as the Umayyad Mosque.

It was built by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walīd I between 705 and 715 CE.

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Country Pakistan

Location in Pakistan

Architect(s) Vedat Dalokay

Date established 1986

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Hagia Sophia, officially the Holy Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, and formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, is a Late Antique place of worship in Istanbul, designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles

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The Chain Gate (Bāb as-Silsila) is one of the gates to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was previously known as David's Gate. As it was named in the early Islamic period Bāb Daud which means David's Gate.

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• The first and innermost circle around Kaaba is? Masjid-e-Haram
• The second circle around Kaaba is? Makkah Mukaramah
• The third circle around Kaba is? Haram
• The fourth circle around Kaba is? Mowaqeet

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The Great Mosque of Samarra located in Iraq was built by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil around 850,

it was probably the largest mosque in the world, with a total area of nearly 42 acres.